Guild Wars 2

Sorry if this has already been covered elsewhere, but I haven’t much been keeping up on things lately and kind of only log in these days to do a few SPvP matches on my Engi and that’s about it.

Currently I’m running Static Discharge build with Medkit, and I’ve noticed in the past that the #4 cleanse on Medkit is pretty weak (only cleanses one condition), but it’s really the only thing that you have as SD, so you gotta learn to love it. But apparently it has zero efficacy against Torment? Was this intended? If so, doesn’t that seem a little ridiculous? Given that a good deal of my healing (medpacks and cleanse) REQUIRE me to move around, and the universal fact that in PvP standing still = death, it seems like if they were going to introduce such a powerful, stackable DoT that they would provide some way to clear it?

And just to clarify, I’m not asking for a 1-button fix to negate Torment. Conditions can EASILY be re-applied faster than an Engineer can cleanse them. I’m just wondering if the Medkit #4 was perhaps an oversight in this latest patch…?

Did you face a necro using Tainted Shackles? If you read the description on the wiki, you’ll see that the skill conditions repeatedly. You need to put distance between yourself and the necro before you cleanse, and keep distance. Rocket Boots help.